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...Edward T. Stotesbury, and won. General Pershing's aide lost, which did not ease the friction which still exists between the Chief of Staff and the retired General of the Armies. Known as the "Kid General" during the War, MacArthur was given command first of the Fourth Corps Area, then of the Third, a time-killing process necessary before he could reasonably be made Chief of Staff. The year he took the Army's highest job his divorced wife married Actor Lionel Atwill...
...Zionists have been buying up the land without restriction, and the Arabs are being turned off their ancient homes. Investigations in the Palestine area have revealed a 'landless proletariat' living on the hospitality of the Arab communities. Zionist statisticians deny these facts. I am not in a position to say where the truth lies...
...single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food and the remainder is approaching the same condition. I hear such things as five of a family of seven starved to death. A man climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates...
Last week Dr. Adalbert G. Bettman of the University of Oregon reported a further effective treatment of severe burns and scalds. He gives the victim a narcotic to control pain, removes loosened skin from the injured areas, applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
...famed J. P. Morgan preferred list. Up bobbed Counsel Hogan to cry "Irrelevant!" His objection was sustained. Again Counsel Jackson devoted an elaborate series of questions to showing that in the crisis of 1933 Mr. Mellon had backed up his family's banks in the Pittsburgh area, let his chief local rivals' Bank of Pittsburgh fail. "If you can find," sneered Counsel Hogan, "anything in connection with the tax return of this petitioner for 1931 that has anything to do with whether a bank in which he had no interest did or did not receive money from...